[EDITOR'S NOTE: We're highlighting a few of the entries in this year's Knight News Challenge, which just closed Tuesday night. Did you know of an entry worth looking at? Email Mac or leave a brief comment on this post. —Josh]
Former Indianapolis Star software developer Chris Vannoy brings something unusual to his News Challenge application: a [...]

News organizations, take note: More women than men are using social media, a new study says.
The study, from Information is Beautiful, uses Google Ad Planner numbers to come up with its conclusion that more women than men use many popular social networks. Digg stands out because 64 percent of users are men. LinkedIn and YouTube [...]

The Newspaper Association of America cast a wide net this summer in seeking proposals for generating online revenue. Their request went out to many of the firms we’ve been covering closely but also several tech companies that aren’t exactly in the thick of the news industry, including Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle.
I thought there was [...]

Here’s an interesting set of visualizations. Apparently, during Obama’s swearing-in yesterday, people:
— stopped posting photos to Flickr;
— stopped searching for things on Google;
— stopped fiddling with their music on Last.fm; but
— quadrupled their normal tweeting levels on Twitter.
Now, in each case “stopped” is an overstatement — those first three services merely saw substantial and unusual [...]